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  • Six Budget predictions and eight Budget wishes
    Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:47:08 GMT
    Accountant Tenon warns the HMRC is set to turn the screw on tax avoidance and will clamp down on schemes that turn income into capital ahead of the 50% tax rate in April
  • Lehman report - more litigation on the way
    Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:21:09 GMT
    Investors in Lehman now have very strong evidence that they were misled, following the publication of a US report. Those with deep pockets and insurance will be targeted.

BBC Business News

  • Royal Mail quality tests 'rigged'
    Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:43:00 GMT
    The postal watchdog is considering taking action against Royal Mail after finding that delivery quality tests were rigged.
  • Sarkozy and Brown attack US deal
    Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:39:58 GMT
    Nicolas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown criticise the US for "protectionism" over an aerospace deal after talks in London.
  • Port exports
    Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:58 GMT
    Portuguese exporters hit by strong euro
  • Lloyds aids mortgage overpayments
    Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:53 GMT
    UK mortgage lender Lloyds Banking Group is encouraging borrowers to pay off up to 20% of their mortgages early.
  • Interns 'exploited by employers'
    Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:47 GMT
    The TUC is claiming that young people are being exploited by employers through internships in which they do not get paid.

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BBC News

  • Royal Mail quality tests 'rigged'
    Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:43:00 GMT
    The postal watchdog is considering taking action against Royal Mail after finding that delivery quality tests were rigged.
  • Man remanded on harassment charge
    Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:35:05 GMT
    An 18-year-old appears in court charged with the harassment of a man who collapsed in the garden of his Greater Manchester home.
  • England put Tigers under pressure
    Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:21:44 GMT
    England reduce Bangladesh to 154-5 at the end of day two of the first Test, still 445 runs adrift of the tourists' 599-6 declared.
  • Maliki leads Baghdad poll count
    Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:15:18 GMT
    Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki's coalition is ahead in the key area of Baghdad, election officials say, as the slow count continues.

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